Beyond Managed Care: How Consumers and Technology Are Changing the Future of Health Care (Jossey-Bass Health Care Series)
by Dean C. Coddington, Elizabeth A. Fischer, Keith D. Moore, Richard L. Clarke
"An enlightening, challenging, and eminently readable guide to the future of health care, with expert insights into how health care professionals can prepare now for the extraordinary changes soon to come.
"This book identifies and assesses key factors most likely to influence the market for health care services, and shows providers what adjustments they can make to thrive in this fast-changing field. The authors lucidly analyze the past, present, and future dynamics of the health care marketplace. They explore the factors driving health care costs,
changes in the way health decisions are made, risk management, financing models, regulatory trends, and more, giving health care professionals just the information they need to prepare for the next stage in the evolution of the health care system."
The Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business, and the Politics of Health Care in the United States
by Marie Gottschalk
"Why, in the recent campaigns for universal health care, did organized labor maintain its support of employer-mandated insurance?
Did labor's weakened condition prevent it from endorsing national health insurance? Marie Gottschalk demonstrates here that the unions'
surprising stance was a consequence of the peculiarly private nature of social policy in the United States. Her book combines a much-needed account of labor's important role in determining health care policy with a bold and incisive analysis of the American welfare state.
"Gottschalk stresses that, in the United States, the social welfare system is anchored in the private sector but backed by government policy.
As a result, the private sector is a key political battlefield where business, labor, the state, and employees hotly contest matters such as health care. She maintains that the shadow welfare state of job-based benefits shaped the manner in which labor defined its policy interests and strategies. As evidence, Gottschalk examines the influence of the Taft-Hartley health and welfare funds, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (E.R.I.S.A.), and experience-rated health insurance, showing how they constrained labor from supporting universal health care.
"Labor,
Gottschalk asserts, missed an important opportunity to develop a broader progressive agenda. She challenges the movement to establish a position on health care that addresses the growing ranks of Americans without insurance, the restructuring of the U.S. economy, and the political travails of the unions themselves."
